Spring 2017 HNRS Courses

HNRS 1036 Sec. 1

Ancient Astronomy

M W F 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Professor Bradley Schaefer Department of Physics and Astronomy

The sky is part of our environment. This course will investigate the many ways at which ordinary people as well as famous characters interact with the sky, from ancient times, and even a little into the future. This is not your usual history-of-science class giving the linear development to modern...
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Fulfills General Education:

Natural Sciences

HNRS 2013 Sec. 1

Great Britain in the 20th Century

Tu Th 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Associate Dean Ann Sumner Holmes Ogden Honors College

During the 20th Century the British fought two world wars, lost an empire, and developed a welfare state. From Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair, their Prime Ministers have played a prominent role in world affairs.

The British Invasion of the 1960s brought the Beatles, the Rolling Stones,...
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Fulfills General Education:

English Composition

Humanities

Social Sciences

HNRS 2013 Sec. 2

Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

Tu 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Professor David Culbert Department of History

This seminar is intended to introduce able students to selected major events in the history of Nazi Germany, 1933-1945, as well as the Holocaust—the eradication of European Jewry. Students will be introduced to a variety of styles of historical explanation— memoirs, polemics, novels, and works of analysis by professional historians....
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Fulfills General Education:

English Composition

Humanities

Social Sciences

HNRS 2013 Sec. 3

Throughout the semester we will examine the Italian American experience by analyzing historical, cultural, literary and cinematic representations. Our analysis will provide an overview of Italian emigration to America in the 19th and 20th centuries (with specific references to Italians in Louisiana) and the conditions within the United States as...
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Fulfills General Education:

English Composition

Humanities

Social Sciences

HNRS 2013 Sec. 4

The State of Louisiana

Tu Th 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Associate Dean Granger Babcock Ogden Honors College

This course is the gateway course for the LASAL Scholars Program. At its conclusion, students should have a basic understanding of the root causes of poverty in Louisiana; a basic understanding of the daily challenges that Louisiana children and families face who live in poverty; and a basic understanding of...
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Fulfills General Education:

English Composition

Humanities

Social Sciences

HNRS 2013 Sec. 5

Mandela, Gandhi, and King: Struggles for Social Justice in the 20th Century

Th 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Professor Nancy Clark Department of History

This course will examine the lives, actions, and phi-losophies of three of the greatest leaders of the 20th century – Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mohandas Gandhi. Each of these men led social movements of the masses within their own countries, seeking redress for injustices imposed upon them...
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Fulfills General Education:

English Composition

Humanities

Social Sciences

HNRS 2020 Sec. 1

Character and Business Strategy in American Corporations

Tu Th 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Senior Instructor Daniel Marin Rucks Department of Management

We will investigate the determintive role of character in the strategy of 20th Century U.S. corporations. What does character account for? Are the strategies of 20th Century U.S. corporations characteristically American?

Fulfills General Education:

English Composition

Humanities

Social Sciences

HNRS 2020 Sec. 2

Islam and Feminism

M W F 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Assistant Professor Asiya Alam Department of History

Under what political conditions did feminism emerge in Muslim societies? What are the issues involved in feminist debates on Islam today? Are there ways in which we can accommodate practice of religion and cultural diversity with equal opportunity and freedom for both men and women? This course will allow students...
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Fulfills General Education:

English Composition

Humanities

Social Sciences

HNRS 2021 Sec. 2

The Films of Alfred Hitchcock

Tu Th 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Professor Carl Freedman Department of English

Enjoy the many varieties of murder—political, personal, serial—in a dozen of the greatest films by Sir Alfred Hitchcock, “the Shakespeare of cinema,” and the undisputed Master of Suspense. We will do close readings of such masterpieces as The 39 Steps, Rear Window, North by Northwest, and Psycho, and we’ll see...
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Fulfills General Education:

English Composition

Arts

HNRS 2021 Sec. 2

Picasso

Tu Th 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Professor Darius Spieth School of Art

This class will give students an opportunity to explore in-depth the life and work of Pablo Picasso, arguably the most important visual artist of the twentieth century. We will study Picasso in the broader framework of the evolution of modern art, and relate key events in his artistic career to...
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Fulfills General Education:

English Composition

Humanities

HNRS 2030 Sec. 2

Civil War Memory

M W 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Professor Gaines Foster Department of History

Through lectures, readings, and discussion, this course will explore how contrasting and contested memories of the Civil War emerged—among whites in the North, whites in the South, and African Americans. It will then explore manifestations of those memories in various novels and movies as well as in movements and public...
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Fulfills General Education:

English Composition

Humanities

HNRS 2030 Sec. 3

Poetry as Archive

Tu Th 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Professor Laura Mullen Department of English

What do we treasure and what do we trash? What do we try to remember and what do we want to forget? Ideas and questions about the transient and the durable form the basis of our value system and our sense of identity. “Archive” and “Dump,” as categories, structure our...
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Fulfills General Education:

English Composition

Humanities

HNRS 2030 Sec. 4

272 Slaves: Discovering Louisiana's (and Georgetown's) Past

Tu Th 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Roger Hadfield Ogden Dean Jonathan Earle Ogden Honors College

Throughout the semester, we will read widely of the history of slavery in the United States, the internal slave trade, and historical memory. A special focus will be the Louisiana descendants of a group of slaves sold by Georgetown University in 1838. The course will consist of common readings and...
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Fulfills General Education:

English Composition

Humanities

HNRS 2030 Sec. 5

Dante's Divine Comedy

Tu Th 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Professor Gregory Stone Department of French Studies

Students will study the entirety of Dante’s Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise), a work of great scope that aims to provide a complete picture of the reality of the cosmos and of human virtues and vices. One of the great masterpieces of world literature, Dante’s poem is a compendium of...
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Fulfills General Education:

English Composition

Humanities

HNRS 2041 Sec. 1

Classical Traditions

M W 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

M W 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Prof. in Residence Drew Lamonica Arms Ogden Honors College

Who were Homer, Achilles, Thucydides, Plato, Virgil, Aeneas, Cicero, and Dante? Have you heard their names and always wanted to know more about them? Take this class!

Who is the better hero, Achilles or Aeneas, and why should we care? Why did Medea kill her children? Why did Socrates drink...
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Fulfills General Education:

English Composition

Humanities

Social Sciences

HNRS 3035 Sec. 1

3D Imaging and Animation

M W F 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Professor Dominique Homberger Department of Biological Sciences

Course objectives: 3D imaging and animation is a dynamic, multidisciplinary field with applications in basic and applied sciences. This course is an excellent preparation for pre-professional students planning to enter the health sciences professions (e.g., medical and veterinary schools, biomedical engineering, medical physics, etc. The course will combine lectures and...
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